Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

Arnaud Lacombe
2011-10-27T15:19:27Z

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>>> I like the feature - i hope it's expressed in the right Kbuild-ish
>>> fashion.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>>
>> I hope we won't now also be getting make nfsconfig, make paeconfig and
>> whatnot :). Also, the lists of select statements might need updates from
>> time to time, if new dependencies appear.
>
> The use case is to be able to take a .config posted in a bug report
> and easily turn that into something that the KVM tool can boot.
>
> "kvmconfig" really represents a virtualized x86 architecture
> configuration.
>
How do you expect:

# make ARCH=hexagon kvmconfig

to behave ? If it is not meant to work outside the x86 world, it
should not be accessible outside the x86 world.

> Maybe the naming is off because it's not about
> individual features like paeconfig or nfsconfig would be but rather
> about turning on all the required options for virtualized x86 for the
> KVM tool.
>
> If you have better ideas how to do this, we're happy to change the
> implementation.
>
As I said, I'll have a look tonight to provide a better implementation.

- Arnaud

>                        Pekka
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